Will somebody just make a

Submitted by Denis63 on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 7:02am

Will somebody just make a bloody virus for a Mac so the effing Mac fans can go stuff themselves? "I have the best, most secure computer on the planet!" says my buddy who recently got a Mac. I told him, "look at the last two years of Pwn2own, you have the least secure, most expensive computer on the planet." That shut him up, heh heh heh. And does apple not have enough of a stanglehold on their hardware?

Windows, FTW! (although, i do think Linux is in fact better, Windows is just easier and nicer to play with.)

-Denis

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for all you apple-haters out there...

Submitted by nam112381 on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 6:47pm

You do realize that the chips Apple are looking to design are likely for the future iPhone revisions, right?  I mean, the article doesn't mention that much (it only mentions they are looking for engineers of multi-use chips for cell phones), but that's what people on tech sites have been talking about for a couple of months now.  They're looking to use their own chips so they can have more control over their device and specifically to improve battery life. 

Also, for those who don't know, Apple has always used its own hardware (except when they authorized some clones under John Sculley).  What they have never used is their own chips.  They started with Motorola, moved to IBM's PowerPC platform, and finally abandoned it for Intel.  Oddly enough, the PowerPC architecture is still good enough Sony's PS3, and ironically, Xbox360.  

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new chipset: the Core A7..

Submitted by bingojubes on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 4:46pm

...and the processor itself will be shaped like their unfinished, wasted apple that nobody bothered to finish eating. Poor Apple. never had a chance to be fully enjoyed.

Core A7 (not "i", since "i" is for Intel), or probably the iCore system (sticking with the whole "apple" theme, ya know), complete with future "Games For Apple" games. i wish Apple good luck with that "new direction". it may be hard for Apple to reinvent the wheel for themselves when many companies probably already have patents on existing designs (i can't confirm that). With that, the Apple stores may end up looking like a "cleaner" version of a computer hardware store. and as compact as some MACs are, they may charge MORE for working on a MAC at the repair shop.

it's only speculation right now, of course. i also wonder if they will make stuff for x58 MAC fans?

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Remember

Submitted by rob41 on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 2:34pm

Remember when..................................Mac used their own hardware?  It was crap so of couse they had no choice but to admit that PC hardware was far superiot to their own.  That's why a Mac is really a PC (albeit slow to medium) with only theirown OS.

They may succeed if it's used in net books but to think they could actually compete against AMD or Intel?

Just pathetic!

 

I love it when someone with an anemic Macbook"pro" says it plays games great dual booting with windows. 

Yeah, a Mac (pc parts inside) running windows to play games.  OMFG!  That's a PC with a rotton apple logo on the lid!

When will apple fanboys realize that the only thing an apple is, is the OS.  

The whole Apple company is a joke.  Their greatest success is the ipod.  The public and the media has swallowed them hook line and sinker.  Yes, the interface of the hardwae is nice, but the software blows.  Worse than that is the fact that acustically they are one of the worst players out there.

Apples are for apple sauce or to put in the mouth of a pig!

End of rant.

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Didn't apple do this already?

Submitted by kiaghi7 on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 2:27pm

I seem to recall apple hardware once upon a time... Whatever happened to it?
Oh yes, that's right, it FAILED and lost the PC vs. Mac war once and for all!
By technology years, it was an eternity ago at that.

 

Apple knows they lost, and they know their market share is nowhere near
sufficient to support what caused them to implode once before; this is
precisely why Macs are nothing but PC's with their proprietary OS on it. And
even in that arena they are eclipsed by Linux.

 

By all means let's see them do this, fail again, lose a tremendous amount of
money, and all in an effort to bring a pathetically inferior product to market
again which STILL won't have any support or be on par with the PC you could
build for the same money that would be worlds beyond it.

 

They will likely revert to the "Mac Berry" marketing scam angled
precisely at those who shop by appearances rather than performance. Because we
all know that when spending a couple thousand dollars it's more important that
the computer look cute than actually perform the task it was purchased for
efficiently.

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Building a chip design (and

Submitted by horzo on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 10:59am

Building a chip design (and manufacturing) infrastructure from scratch? When others already do it cheaper and better? Doesn't seem like a particularly wise move to me,

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Been Here Done That

Submitted by tkddan87 on Thu, 04/30/2009 - 9:47am

When they first hit the main stream wasnt apple making its own hardware? Also, didnt they stop making their own hardware because it cost too much and the hardware was inferior to hardware already out at the time? What makes them think its going to be any different this time?

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